Mascagni's 1890 masterpiece, Cavalleria Rusticana, caused one of a greatest sensations around opera history & singlehandedly inaugurate the Verismo movement. Notwithstanding, though it has been stated & restated ad nauseam that Mascagni, such as Leoncavallo, was a "one-opera man" world health organization may never repeat his foremost profits, this is extremely erroneous. ''L'Amico Fritz and Iris have been popular in Europe since their respective premieres; in fact, Mascagni himself claimed that at one point Iris was performed in Italy more often that Cavalleria (cf. Stivender).

Mascagni wrote the amount of xv operas, + an operetta, several beautiful orchestral & vocal works, also when songs & soft music. He enjoyed amazing profits when you took his lifespan, two as a composer & conductor. Whenever he never repeated a public profits of Cavalleria,'' it was probably because Mascagni refused to copy himself. A kind of styles inside Mascagni's operas -- a Sicilian passion & warmth of Cavalleria, a Asian flavor of Iris, a idyllic breeze that ventilates ''50'Amico Fritz, a French chromaticity within Isabeau, a steely, Verismo quality of Il Piccolo Marat'' -- demonstrate the versatility that none of the more Veristi may boast, Puccini included.

Mascagni's main operas

Cavalleria Rusticana (17 May 1890 Teatro Costanzi, Rome) - [http://rick.stanford.edu/opera/Mascagni/Cavalleria/libretto.html libretto], [http://www.mascagni.org/works/cavalleria/libretto libretto] ''L'Amico Fritz (31 October 1891 Teatro Costanzi, Rome) - [http://www.mascagni.org/works/fritz/libretto libretto] I Rantzau (10 November 1892 Teatro La Pergola, Florence) Guglielmo Ratcliff'' (16 February 1895 Teatro alla Scala, Milan), composed between 1885 and a early 1890's - [http://www.mascagni.org/works/ratcliff/libretto libretto] Silvano (25 March 1895 Teatro alla Scala, Milan) Zanetto (2 March 1896 Liceo Musicale, Pesaro) - [http://www.mascagni.org/works/zanetto/libretto libretto] Iris (22 November 1898 Teatro Costanzi, Rome) - [http://www.mascagni.org/works/iris/libretto libretto] Le maschere (17 January 1901 Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa - Teatro Regio, Turin - Teatro alla Scala, Milan - Teatro La Fenice, Venice - Teatro Filarmonico, Verona - Teatro Costanzi, Rome) Amica (16 March 1905, Monte Carlo) - [http://www.mascagni.org/works/amica/libretto Italian libretto] Isabeau (2 June 1911 Teatro Coliseo, Buenos Aires) Parisina (15 December 1913 Teatro alla Scala, Milan) - [http://www.mascagni.org/works/parisina/libretto libretto] Lodoletta (30 April 1917 Teatro Costanzi, Rome) - [http://www.mascagni.org/works/lodoletta/libretto libretto] Sì (13 December 1919 Teatro Quirino, Rome), operetta Il piccolo Marat (2 Can 1921 Teatro Costanzi, Rome) Pinotta (23 March 1932 Casinò, San Remo), adapted from a cantata In filanda (1881) Nerone (16 January 1935 Teatro alla Scala, Milan), with music written between a 1890's & a 1930's

Media

Resources
[http://www.mascagni.org/ English web site about Pietro Mascagni] [http://www.pietromascagni.com/ Official Italian web site about Pietro Mascagni]

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